Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution

Roger Brownsword

Provides the fullest analysis available of the regulation of rapid technological change

Discusses all the major areas of current technological development, including biotechnology, information technology, neurotechnology and nanotechnology

Examines technology as a tool for regulators, highlighting the opportunities and problems raised by new regulatory techniques

Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution

Roger Brownsword

Description

Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution confronts a central question facing modern government - how can regulators respond to both the challenges and opportunities presented by a technologically-driven society without sacrificing legitimacy for effectiveness, or weakening the essential conditions of a stable, aspirant moral community?

Analyzing developments across biotechnology, information and communications technology, nanotechnology and neurotechnology, the book explores the difficulties facing the public control of rapid technological change, focusing on the problems of regulatory effectiveness, connection, legitimacy and compliance. The book argues that as regulators struggle to find adequate frameworks to limit,license and support new
technologies, they will increasingly rely on a technological approach to complement, enhance, and even replace traditional legal strategies.

The book breaks new ground by offering the first overarching commentary on the relationship between regulators, industry, and wider society as the new technologies of the twenty-first century achieve an ever-greater penetration in our daily lives.

Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution

Roger Brownsword

Table of Contents

1. The Technologies of the Twenty-First Century: Regulatory Challenge and Regulatory OpportunityPart One: Regulatory Challenge 2. The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy I3. The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy II4. The Challenge of Regulatory Legitimacy III5. The Challenge of Regulatory Effectiveness6. The Challenge of Regulatory Connection7. The Challenge of Regulatory CosmopolitanismPart Two: Regulatory Opportunity 8. Genetic Databases and the First Signs of Regulatory Opportunity9. Seizing the Regulatory Opportunity: Code and Control10. Code and the Corrosion of Moral Community11. Regulating Technologies: Challenge and Opportunity

Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution

Roger Brownsword

Author Information

Roger Brownsword is Director of TELOS (a newly created research centre focusing on technology, ethics, law and society) and Professor of Law at King's College London. He also maintains a long-standing link with the University of Sheffield as an Honorary Professor in Law.